While narrating a video with pictures of beautiful scenery and beautiful people taken for National Geographic, the photographer invites us to ask ourselves what is right with the world. He paints a picture of beauty hidden from our view by a difference of a few steps. Where we might look and see weeds, he invites us to look for the beauty hidden there.  In a photograph of the seeds of a dandelion, he exposes beauty through his lens, capturing the seeds reaching up to the sun, bathed in light..

Where one might see a wrinkled face, he invites us to look at the story behind the face for the beauty hidden there. He says to look for meaning in a life and recognize how that one life is connected around the world.

It is easy to deny, easy to ignore and easy  to miss the beauty  that exists all around us,  to realize that in the experience of each moment lies an incredible vista willing to open itself to our eyes, if we are willing to open our heart to see it.

In tragedy, there are hands reaching out to help, someone willing to cry with us and share our sorrow. In laughter, there are other voices willing to join in and echo our happiness. We are swimming in a pool of acceptance and love, support and caring. Everything is right with the world. Have you looked around you lately? What is there waiting for you to notice?